The Prospect before us –Some Parting Thoughts

          Let’s first just savour the magic of the moment –as it seems to me as the author of this weltanschauung. I find myself standing within the innermost member of a concentric set of singularities which have carried Homo sapiens from its origins only 50,000 to 100,000 years ago, to the present moment. That’s no more than the final eye blink at the end of the evolution of the cosmos that started some 1 ,billion years ago (and the emergence of life about a billion of years later). Language and the ability to speculate and reason abstractly and explicitly only arose about 5,000 years ago. We only came into possession of all of the pieces of the puzzle awaiting assembly about a century ago –perhaps only 50 years. We finally know enough –thanks to science- about the nature of the empirical realm –in both its cosmological and organic aspects- and have at our disposal a sufficient grasp of the formal domain of logic and mathematics to bring everything into focus. Not to be overlooked here is the rich lexicon of ideas and concepts that are the legacy of generations of philosophical speculation. And –speaking from my own very personal viewpoint- it is only a few years ago that I was able to bring everything into some kind of coherent focus –sufficiently well defined to jive me answers to all of the ‘Great Questions’ that were at least minimally satisfying. As measured in terms of the billions of years that heave brought us from the ‘Big Bang’ to the present, the nest of singularities listed above has undergone something of an implosion. Suddenly, I know who we are and what we ought to be doing with our lives. Ahead lies a breathtaking, absolutely open-ended adventure that shall not come to an end until life has captured the entire cosmos, and the population of beings converged to a single member –whom I have dubbed Omega. But the best is yet to come. When eschatology –thanks to the efforts of Omega- has done its work and finite existence is brought to an end, eternal life awaits us all.

         Some Final, Very Personal Comments

                   I must end here with a very personal aside. The reader may wonder if all of this life long speculation has brought its author to the regenerate ‘abgescheidenheit’ posture. The answer is ‘no’ –at least not yet. But then, this was not my primary goal. My task –that which I chose to undertake- was to bring the needed ‘Systems’ philosophy overview into being. In proportion as I have succeeded, then we now have at our disposal the framework or scaffolding of ideas that the culture needs to bring Homo sapiens caducus up to its anthropological destiny of Homo sapiens verus. I am an architect –an architect of ideas. This is what I found myself to be good at –and I claim that I have fulfilled the requirements of the trade. If it has not brought me to the regenerate posture of Abgescheidenheit, it has brought the needed goal clearly in sight. I have a deepened sense of personal identity –I am in process of discovering who I am. Alienation is gone. I’m no speck lost within the vastness of time space and the billions of fellow beings. In a sense I (along with you) is the whole of Reality from my particular point of view. It is the holism of the Gottheit alone that stands clearly above all of us. It is He who shall have the last word.

             I could hardly blame the reader for asking whether or not the labour of the creation of ‘The New Monadology has brought about a spiritual regeneration for its author. These are, of course, very personal matters but I think a few comments are in order. Has it enabled me to climb upwards into a regenerate ontology? 

           One might describe this ‘new world’ as a half-way house in the regenerative quest whose termination is Eckhart’s ‘abgescheidenheit’. The first stage is one in which the possibikities of a conventional ontology are optimized. The step up to the second is of a different nature in which there is a dramatic shift in our innermost posture –at that apex of our being within which we are contnuingly begotten.  One thing which comes through is the sheer drama of the present moment within which we all –stand –and particularly myself. We stand at a profound turning point at all of the levels of phylogeny, anthropology, history in general, and finally of recent developments of the last century that have enabled us to discover who we are, where we stand, and what kind of Reality is ‘out there’ of which everyone of us is a vital part. To be a witness, to be present at the birth is the greatest of privileges..

          I believe it to be true that in one way or another I have been at work on this project all of my life.  My very earliest memories are those of curiosity about the great issues -of why I was here, etc.  The accompanying photo -taken at age 3- is clearly suggestive of thios preoccupation  Click on the image to see if you agree